Lovis Corinth heads the Sezession movement against…

Lovis Corinth heads the Sezession movement against the academic school in Berlin, with the collaboration of Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann.

The forty-two-year-old German Impressionist's training had been academic, taken after 1884 in Paris under the French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

There, however, he had been influenced both by the French Impressionists and by the work of Peter Paul Rubens, and, after he settles in Berlin in 1900, his pictures, which had been at first somber, gain brilliance from the former and vitality from the latter.